GOSSIP - Greenlight

01 ^st Mar 2013

UK Car Insurance: Go Compare holds its lead in Google advertising listings

Go Compare has held on to its lead in Google advertising listings for car insurance despite Google’s share of search visibility for car insurance in Paid Media having increased on the previous quarter and rival comparison sites having likewise grown their share of voice, reveals the latest research from Greenlight.

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Press

22 ^nd Feb 2013

ASOS and Debenhams most visible fashion retailers, online

The battle for the online customer was evident at London Fashion Week, as leading fashion retailers moved well past physical audiences to showcase their latest collections in a bid to grow their online footprint. The latest research from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, shows online searches for fashion-related products in January were up on October 2012 levels and retail research agency Conlumino, which values the current UK fashion market at £44 billion, expects the online channel to account for close to 11% of sales by the end of the year compared to 8% at present.

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Brands , eCommerce , Fashion , and more...

Press

07 ^th Feb 2013

“Enhanced Campaigns”-Google announces significant changes to its AdWords digital advertising platform

Google has announced significant changes to its AdWords digital advertising platform adding functionality it calls “Enhanced Campaigns”. Put simply, it centralises controls for mobile and desktop advertising campaigns in one place and offers advertisers more data to show the real value of their campaigns. Previously businesses have had to submit individual advertising campaigns for different devices, locations and times - a labour-intensive process which most times results in their running hundreds of similar campaigns simultaneously.

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05 ^th Feb 2013

Apple knocks Amazon UK off top spot to become the most visible site for Brown Goods

The latest data from Greenlight shows that in the lead up to Christmas, a total of 12 million searches were made on Google UK for Brown Goods and Amazon, which in August was the most visible site to these searches, was knocked off its perch by none other than Apple!

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Press

05 ^th Feb 2013

‘iPhone 5’ searches up a staggering 594%

Apple’s revenue may have missed expectations as sales of the iPhone reportedly disappointed. However, data from Greenlight shows no slump in the number of online searches pertaining to iPhones, in the lead up to Christmas. In fact, search volumes for the term ‘iPhone 5’ saw a dramatic 594% jump. The opposite was true for the term ‘Blackberry’. Just last week, its inventor, Research in Motion (RIM), showed off two new smartphones for its newly built BlackBerry 10 operating system.

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Press

31 ^st Jan 2013

Facebook ad revenues are up - but is the trajectory sustainable?

Facebook has confounded critics who thought it would be incapable of making money from the rapid growth of mobile device usage. Not only has it revealed a strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%, its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, to account for 23% of the Social Network’s overall ad revenues. However, according to Andreas Pouros, COO at Greenlight, there are indicators Facebook has achieved this growth by being as aggressive as it can be in pushing advertising to the masses within the confines it currently works in. Research* from the agency also suggests consumer apathy could pose a significant threat to future growth.

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15 ^th Jan 2013

Facebook’s Graph Search – A story of ‘Three’ Halves

Further to speculation that has been building up over week, Facebook has today announced an addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called ‘‘Graph Search ’. It will allow people using Facebook to more quickly find answers to questions about friends in their Social Graph. Andreas Pouros, COO at Greenlight, says today’s announcement is a story of ‘three’ halves.

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